Rolf Buch
CEO, Vonovia
Rolf Buch has been member of the Management Board and Chief Executive Officer of Vonovia SE since 2013.
After training as a bank clerk and studying mechanical engineering and business management, he began his career as an assistant to the management at Bertelsmann Distribution GmbH in Gütersloh in 1991. In 1996, he was promoted to managing director of Bertelsmann Services France and became a member of the management board of arvato AG in 2002.In 2008, became Chairman of the Management Board (CEO) of arvato AG and was appointed to the management board of Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA. He was appointed Chairman of the Management Board (CEO) of the company now known as Vonovia SE in 2013. After taking up his office, Rolf Buch led Vonovia as it entered the stock exchange.Vonovia SE was promoted to Germany’s leading index, the DAX 30 (now the DAX 40), in 2015. The company is Europe’s largest residential real estate company. Rolf Buch is a member of the executive board of the German Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies (GdW), vice president of the German central real estate committee Zentraler Immobilien Ausschuss (ZIA) and the German Association for Housing, Urban and Spatial Development, member of the Board of Directors of the European Public Real Estate Association ERPA in Brussels.
Academic Career: Rolf Buch had studied Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration at RWTH Aachen University.